Tag: Year 1

Year 2 were joined by Year 1 for a KidzFit workshop. The children learned all about how to keep themselves healthy through exercise. The children tested their abilities by taking part in different exercises and monitoring the affect this had on their bodies. What a wonderful time was had by…

In our D&T lessons we have been investigating answering ‘Can you build with bread?’.  We have been building a house for the three little pigs. After investigating we decided to heat the bread first to make toast as it is more sturdy for building with. We made our own cement choosing our own…

Today for Number Day Year 1 and Year 6 joined together to take part in some ‘Active Maths’. Year 6 planned maths games and activities for Year 1 to enjoy.  Everyone enjoyed counting, adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying in creative ways.  It was fun learning and being active together.
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Year 1 celebrated in royal style.  We enjoyed making our own crowns to wear at our street party. We decorated ourselves with Union Jack face paints and tattoos.  We bounced till we dropped and finished off with an ice cream or ice lolly.  Having our lunch with all the classes joined together…

Chris Bennet, Olympic hammer thrower, visited school today to tell us all about his experiences and carry out a fitness circuit with each class.  We were all inspired by his determination and dedication to his sport. We had lots of fun taking part in the fitness activities and enjoyed learning…

We have all been trying to walk, cycle or scoot to school this week as part of Active Travel Week. As well as helping us get fitter, this cuts down on pollution and car congestion outside our school. Year 5 also had a turn at wearing the step trackers this week. The children tried to improve on…

In our Textiles lessons we have been learning to attach materials in different ways and add colour, pattern and texture. 
 

Today we have been learning about measuring length. We have been using non-standard measures like cubes, paper clips, rubbers and hands.  We have measured objects around our classroom using cubes.  We had lots of fun counting the cubes to find out the length and we even measured a row of tables! 
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Into the woods for more fantastic learning experiences with Mia our Forest School Leader. We enjoyed creating our own necklaces. We used tools to create the hole for the string to go through. We explored climbing trees and had great fun playing group games. This week we saw lots of progress with…

Year 1 enjoyed a fascinating and fun interactive Planetarium Show in the Wonder Dome.  It showed Year 1 how wonderful and intriguing the universe is.  The Wonder Dome created a magical learning environment to learn all about the wonders of space with a 360 degree immersive experience. We learnt…

As part of British Science Week Year 1 had a scientific enquiry based on this year’s theme of ‘Connections’. We learnt how sound travels in ‘sound waves’.  We created cup and string telephones. We investigated if sound could travel along the string to send a message.  We started with measuring…

As part of our number day fun today we made our own ‘Number Museum’.  We worked in pairs and chose a number.  Then we made our number in different ways.  We practised writing it, drawing it and making it using cubes, ten frames, base 10 and Numicon.  Next we displayed all the ways we made our…